{"id":6733,"date":"2014-05-14T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/05\/20140514_visti_italia-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-14T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:55:22","slug":"20140514_visti_italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/05\/20140514_visti_italia\/","title":{"rendered":"Record visti ingresso Italia: oltre 2 mln i documenti rilasciati nel 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A record number of entry visas to Italy were issued in 2013. The 2,125,490 visas issued, 13.5% more than in 2012, generated 104 million euros for the state coffers \u2013 an unprecedented result. Italy takes second place in the Schengen area for the number of visas issued, behind France (2,471,220) and, for the first time, ahead of Germany (2,084,213).<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Record number of tourism visas<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Russia, China, Turkey and India were the leading visitor countries. Tourism visas numbered 1,657,075 \u2013 22.8% up on the previous year and the highest total ever recorded. And a figure with positive implications for one of our country\u2019s strategic sectors. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><A name=_GoBack><\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>These results were the fruit of measures such as the Foreign Ministry\u2019s efforts to identify innovative solutions to improve the transparency and efficiency of the visa issuing service, especially as regards the time required. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>New \u201cstart-up\u201d visa<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Priority is given to visas for business purposes, which currently take no more than 8 days, thanks to rationalisation initiatives, staff training and new simplified procedures. To foster investment in Italy, a new \u201cstart-up\u201d visa has been introduced for people wishing to set up innovative new businesses in our country. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Farnesina\u2019s efforts are continuing in the run-up to EXPO 2015, which estimates say could attract 6 to 8 million visitors to Italy. 500,00 to 600,000 visitors are expected from China alone, while our Embassy in Beijing is already the leading European mission in the city for the number of visas issued. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of entry visas to Italy were issued in 2013. The 2,125,490 visas issued, 13.5% more than in 2012, generated 104 million euros for the state coffers \u2013 an unprecedented result. Italy takes second place in the Schengen area for the number of visas issued, behind France (2,471,220) and, for the first time, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}